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“The semester, she has ended”!
I just completed my last exam on Physics, and this marks the end of my semester. I hope to be more consistent in blogging my next semester here… Until then…
“Good night out there, whatever you are”
When Alice is tried by the Queen of Hearts, the Queen declares a change of judicial procedures, “sentence first, verdict afterwards!”*
In XP, we were introduced to the concept of testing-first, coding-afterwards. Today we learnt the real details of how to do this.
*Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll/ Walt Disney Pictures
My fingers are still aching from writing fast! The test was an hour long, and I had to rush to complete all five of the essay questions. Well, this is done, and now I have to concentrate on my open-topic CIV essay titled “Exploring Middle Eastern History in the Hexateuch”
The test didn’t take place, probably a good thing! We covered chapter 8 instead on “Acceptance testing”
We looked into how we convert a user story into tasks (iterations). This was badly needed for our projects, which have been running into some delays as of recent!
Today we learnt about how to create, revise, estimate, rank, code and accept user stories: the planning game. We also learnt about how the client we learn about in books is different from the real world client.
Today we deviate slightly from XP to learn about traditional testing approaches.
Later on, we moved back to XP techniques and learnt about the role of the client (just another team member in XP).
We continued into pair programming as an XP practice.
This day we finished up on an overview of basic XP practices, and moved into the details of one of them, pair programming. In pair programming, we discussed some advantages and disadvantages, and the roles of pair programmers:
Chapter 2 is mostly about spikes. Spikes are an XP approach to explore areas not very clear in a project by working on a smaller problem outside the project and then coming back to the project after gaining the skills for it.
Other topics we covered today are…
Blog on team project started… Codename Project 2
